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Lucas van Valckenborch – Dancers in a Landscape
An esteemed portraitist, painter of world landscapes and market scenes, man of the world and court painter, the Flemish artist Lucas van Valckenborch (c.1535 – 1597), depicted peasant dance and court dance in a number of his paintings. During his early training van Valckenborch studied in Mechelen, a centre specializing in world landscapes. He and… Read more
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Pieter Bruegel and Sons – a continuing story
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c.1525/1530 – 1569), fondly referred to as Peasant Bruegel, had two sons; Pieter, born in 1564, and Jan, born in 1568. Both Pieter and Jan became celebrated artists. Pieter the Younger was an excellent artist and equally accomplished businessman; the greater bulk of his enormous oeuvre was centred around peasant themes.… Read more
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Bruegel/Brueghel – Dancers at a wedding
Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s original work, upon which The Peasant Wedding Dance is inspired, has been lost. Fortunately, Pieter van der Heyden engraved a work, presumed to be a copy of Bruegel’s painting, sometime after 1570. The setting of The Peasant Wedding Dance is, in part, comparable to The Wedding Dance (1566) where four dancing… Read more
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The Wedding Dance – after Bruegel
There was a time when imitating and emulating a celebrated artist was common practice. There are, for example, 127 documented copies of Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s Winter Landscape with Ice-skaters and Bird-trap. Bruegel’s The Wedding Dance, the subject of my previous post, was copied and imitated numerous times. Exactly how many copies were made is… Read more
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Bruegel’s Wedding Dance – the dancing bride
The peasant wedding was a popular theme in 16th and early 17th century Flemish art. Paintings of wedding processions, the presentation of wedding gifts, the blessing of the bridal bed, and the wedding feast flooded the art market. Images of a wedding dance, with exuberantly dancing peasants, were especially in demand. Bruegel composed two versions.… Read more
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Bruegel’s extraordinary dancers
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525 – 1569), fondly referred to as Peasant Bruegel, showcased the peasant in his rural surroundings. His celebrated peasant panels, The Wedding Dance (c. 1566), The Peasant Dance (1568), and The Peasant Wedding (1566-69), painted in the last years of his life, form but a small section of his oeuvre.… Read more
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About me
As a young aspiring dancer I loved to ponder over the magnificent paintings created by Edgar Degas. How his ballerinas inspired me. The atmosphere of the Paris Opera, the beautiful tutus and the hard working dancers never failed to trigger my imagination. As the years past, I retained my love of dance, of Degas, of art, and developed an interest in knowing more about the cross fertilization between art and dance.
DANCE IMAGES IN THE ART OF THE NETHERLANDS 